Christmas is 100% Pagan, Why do so many Evangelical churches and Christians celebrate this day?

Question

(I AM A CHRISTIAN, NOT A JEHOVIA WITNESS)

With Christmas being Pagan, how can a Christian celebrate this Holiday. According to the bible there are dozens of Scriptures including the History of Nimrod that say Christmas should not be celebrated. Proof:
Christ said, “But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” (Matt. 15:9). Christmas is not a command of God—it is a tradition of men. Christ continued, “Full well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition” (Mark 7:9)

Christmas is really the celebration of Nimrod. Babylonians called him Tammuz (as Nimrod, resurrected in the person of his son), Molech or Baal (as did the Druids). These were all simply the various names for Nimrod. Nimrod was considered the father of all the Babylonian gods.You can read more about it on the web:

Christmas Trees, Mistle Toe, Santa, everything Christmas is Pagan and we stamp Jesus's Name on it so we can celebrate it without a guilty conscience

Since I could not fit the whole orgin of Christmas on this posting I urge all Christians to do a little research on this, a great website to read about the Pagan Holiday is


http://www.thercg.org/books/ttooc.html



I believe all Christians should really investigate if God wants us to celebrate this holiday. Jesus was not born on Dec 25. Would you want your Birthday acknowledged on a day you were on tnot even born? God is very specific on the days of Holidays we are supposed to celebrate, why would he miss this one?

After reading some of your answers, some of you state that as long as you love God and your heart is right with him, thats all that matters. My answer to you is that Christ himself commanded us not to follow the traditions of man. Christmas is a tradition of men and pagans.No where in the bible are we commanded by God to celebrate this holiday.
Christ said, “But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” (Matt. 15:9)
If your Pastor says its ok to celebrate Christmas I urge you to have yor Pastor find in the bible where it says you can celebrate Pagan Holidays even if yor heart is in the right place?

I am sure your pastor will be speechless and please don't give me the story about the evergreen tree story explaining Christ Birth. If its not in the bible, its a man made fable-
ALSO READ Jeremiah 10:1-16

THE TRUTH IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACES AND YET WE HAVE CHRISTIANS STILL FORCING THIS HOLIDAY AS JESUS'S BIRTHDAY

Answer 1

Christmas does not celebrate Christ; it celebrates the pagan Saturnalia. As this question notes, Jesus was not even born in December. Nearly all so-called Christmas customs dishonor Christ.

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http://watchtower.org/e/rq/article_11.htm


By contrast, it's tragic that the one holiday Christ actually *DID* ask Christians to commemorate is entirely ignored by almost all of Christendom. It is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death, sometimes called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".

(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.”

(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.”


Christ Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have done so on the same Jewish calendar date as Jesus did, Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "Fourteen-ers", because the early Christians were well-known for this true holy day.

How would Jesus feel to learn that the holiday he commanded was widely ignored, while his so-called followers chose to celebrate a pagan false god and their own traditions of men? We don't need to wonder.

(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”

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http://watchtower.org/e/20011115/article_02.htm
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http://watchtower.org/e/jt/

Answer 2

Sorry but someone has told you a load of nonsense. You can read all sorts of garbage on the web. Try going to the web site of the history department of a good university and you will do much better. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere in the historical record or in archaeology that Christmas ever had anything to do with any Babylonian gods . Nimrod was not a god - read your bible, he was an earthly monarch. There is nothing in Babylonian writings about any God called Nimrod. December 25th is a date in the Roman Solar calendar. The Babylonians, like the Jews, used a LUNAR calendar so any genuine Babylonian feast would, like Passover/Easter, change date every year in our Roman calendar. Santa Claus originated as Saint Nicholas, a Christian bishop of the 4th century. Not a pagan at all. The Christmas tree originated as a representation of the Tree of Life from the bible and a metaphor for Christ himself. Not pagan. The use of greenery (holly, mistletoe, fir etc) in festivals is biblically sanctioned -see Lev 23:40. Not pagan.

Answer 3

Christmas is not 100% pagan. Look at the etymology of the word: the birth/coming of Christ. Christmas is not the celebration of Nimrod. Christmas was placed on the 25th of December because Church leaders had no idea when Christ was born, and they wanted to get people to stop celebrating pagan holidays by supplanting them with a Christian holiday. Consequently, some of the Christmas traditions did get mixed up with some of the pagan ones - Christmas trees and mistle toe, as you say. Santa, however, is Christian. Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas. Lived in the fourth century, famous for gifts to poor - look it up: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=371 . Now, of course, Christmas is as religious or secular as you wish to make it. Mt 15:8 and Mk 7:6 (verses preceding the ones you cited) say, "This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me." What matters is not that the pharisees were following tradition, but that they were giving tradition precedence to the Word of God. The same can be applied today. If we celebrate Christmas as a commercial holiday, then it's putting tradition before God. If, however, we celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday, then that's infusing tradition with the worship of God - and that's the best of all. In fact, in order to prove this point, look at several Biblical references that encourage Christians to follow tradition:

2 Thess 2:15 Now then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught...

2 Thess 3:6 ...keep aloof from every brother who leads an unruly life and not according to the tradition which you received from us.

1 Cor 11:2 Now I praise you because you remember me in everything, and hold firmly to the traditions...

Answer 4

We celebrate Christmas according to tradition, not commandment. We celebrate the birth of our Savior, does it matter when? We use it as a time to show others how much they mean to us and give them gifts in honor of His birth.

I don't understand why this is a problem for you. If you believe that it is a pagan celebration, then you are right and you should never EVER celebrate it again, that would be wrong. But I don't believe it, and to me it is a time of caring and love and celebration for the Son of God's birth.

Answer 5

Its is because in the early history of the catholic church the leader of the official church and the leader of the pagans were one and the same, so he merged the two groups to some extent. one of these mergers is to put a christian name on every pagan holiday(Dec 25 is the birthday of at least 5 major sun gods) . from there it became tradition and no one likes to break with tradition, actually some people get offended when you even suggest you stop Christmas.

also a side note: Easter is also pagan.

Answer 6

You've got to be kidding me!

It's a Christian tradition to celebrate Christ's birthday on Dec. 25th and you do realize that St. Paul himself says hold fast to the Traditions which you were taught, right? (Proof that the Bible contradicts.)

And you do realize Protestants have a tradition of interpreting scripture for themselves (aka Sola Scriptura) and simply picking and chooing whatever they want out of the Bible to fit into their belief system, right? (Proof that Protestant pastors re-invent the weheel each week and that Protestants simply don't deal with Bible verses that don't jive with their beliefs.)

And in my NAB Bible translation for Mark 7:9, there is no reference to Christmas whatsoever.

Oh, and Christmas is as pagan as YOU make it to be!

Answer 7

Are you serious?

God created everything before any pagan ever lived, and God owns all the days ... past, present, and future.

Christmas celebrates Christ's birth, and nothing else.

As such, it is a Christian holiday, and not pagan in any way, shape, or form.

Perhaps you don't realize that all the converted Jews and Christians were once pagans, as well.

Answer 8

Yes, christmas has its pagan roots just like most holidays but seriously big freakin' deal so go ahead and condemn others for celebrating christmas or any other holiday... its the heart's intention God looks at I know its all worldy but since when is giving some a gift such a bad thing?

Answer 9

What you are failing to realize is that in many, many circumstances God takes something terrible and turns it around for HIS good. So what if this holiday started out as a pagan holiday? We don't worship as pagans. We have turned it around to the glory of God and we worship Him. I don't worship Christmas trees or mistletoe or Santa. I worship Jesus Christ and at Christmas I celebrate His birth.

Answer 10

You are 100% absolutely correct!!! Thanks be to God that there are others out there that know the truth. I agree with you completely!

December 25th isn't even Christ's birthday!

Christ was 33 and a half when he died in the spring, do the math and you get he was born in the fall.
(see Luke 3:23, began His ministry at 30 and it lasted 3 and a half years)

Just as the bible says in ...

Luke 2:8 "shepherd's watching their flocks by night" this only happens when it's warm enough in Israel, impossible in the wintertime.

Just like most other holidays instituted by the Church of Rome from the middle ages, Christmas is based off of a pagan ritual. The birthday of the "sun god" deis natalis solus invictus "the birthday of the unconquerable sun" which is Dec. 25. Who's roots are found with Nimrod and the worship of Tammuz!

Please friends just look up "roots of Christmas, or pagan roots of Christmas".
As to the person who posed this question: God bless you and keep you! May He honor you for your courage to speak the truth!